stylite

英 ['staɪlaɪt] 美 ['staɪ,laɪt]
  • n. 修行的人,修行者

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stylite (n.)
ascetic living on the top of a pillar, 1630s, from Ecclesiastical Greek stylites, from stylos "pillar," from PIE root *sta- "to stand, set down, make or be firm" (see stet).

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